A Hidden Life (2019 film)

A Hidden Life
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTerrence Malick
Written byTerrence Malick
Produced by
  • Elisabeth Bentley
  • Dario Bergesio
  • Grant Hill
  • Josh Jeter
Starring
CinematographyJörg Widmer
Edited by
Music byJames Newton Howard
Production
companies
Distributed byFox Searchlight Pictures (United States)
Pandora Film (Germany)[2]
Release dates
  • May 19, 2019 (2019-05-19) (Cannes)[3]
  • December 13, 2019 (2019-12-13) (United States)
Running time
174 minutes
Countries
Languages
  • English
  • German
Budget$7–9 million[5]
Box office$4.6 million[2][6]

A Hidden Life is a 2019 epic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It stars August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, and Matthias Schoenaerts, with Michael Nyqvist and Bruno Ganz in their final performances. The film depicts the life of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer and devout Catholic who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II.

The title is taken from George Eliot's Middlemarch:

... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

Eliot in turn derived it from a phrase in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Colossians 3:3: "For you died, and [now] your life is hidden with Christ in God."

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and was theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019.[7] It received critical acclaim upon release and was the final feature film to be released under the Fox Searchlight Pictures name before Walt Disney Studios changed the company's name to Searchlight Pictures on January 17, 2020.

  1. ^ McCarthy, Todd (May 19, 2019). "'A Hidden Life': Film Review | Cannes 2019". The Hollywood Reporter. Valence Media. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "A Hidden Life (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  3. ^ "The Screenings Guide 2019". May 9, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "A Hidden Life (2019)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference DeadlineMay was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "A Hidden Life (2019)". The Numbers. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  7. ^ "Cannes festival 2019: full list of films". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2019.